Writer, director and actor Deepika Arwind in various scenes from the performance

When Bengaluru-based theatre maker and playwright Deepika Arwind uses the terms "daily misogyny" and "everyday sexism", she suggests that we see the acts in the light of their alarmingly rampant nature. "Because they happen all the time, we feel these are minor skirmishes, but precisely because they happen every day, they are problematic. More than the incident itself, they represent a kind of mindset. They are symptomatic of a larger culture, of the way in which we view women, their prerogatives, agency and intellect," she says.